Author Comments:

I'm going to start upping the quality of the pages, this one is pretty bad inking-wise :( I promise it will look better by next week!
Whisper of the Heart was on tv today. Its my favorite Ghibli animation, its just wonderful. Its about a school girl who wants to be a writer (shes a total bookworm :D) but, like all teenagers, is torn as to wether she should go for it or keep her passion to herself.
I just wanted to show you all this awesome scene. She comes across this quirky shop and meets a boy in there, who s planning on going to Italy to become a professional violin maker. The boy has read some of her 'secret' writings that she left on a bench. including her own lyrics for the song 'Country Road'. This beautiful scene is where she finally comes out of shell, and her new friend encourages her to sing her lyrics- its almost like the point when she realises that she should be true to herself and do what what she was born to do :) (hehe and notice how one of the old men are playing a lute! :P )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_rlJbwsbs4

If you guys havent seen the film, I reccomend it! Its not a fantasy, but has a mystical feel (the girl has a typical bookworm imagination hehe)and is very honest/emotional and gentle :)

Reader Comments:

AWWW i just watche dthe clip, i'm so goin to watch this movie, from what u described it sounds like a real deep story, i luv stuff like tht, and i luv Ghibli animation, brings a real joy to the heart of people :')

and yea an excape plan, i hope it works xD let us all be rebels, by the way me and my sis have been talking a lot about the 16th centuary, and omg there are like tons of things ur not allowed to do without gettin permision from goverments, like playing music or even painting in the streets O.o i kno u still have to get permision if ur takin cash for it, but as a hobby, i just thought "jeez where is the freedom in tht"